This is the Nordic Ware Classic Cast pound cake pan — a heavy 18-cup cast aluminum pan with a simple, smooth fluted profile designed specifically for pound cakes. The larger capacity and thicker metal are what separate this from a standard Bundt: pound cake batter is dense and heavy, and it needs a taller, heavier pan to rise evenly without collapsing in the center on a long bake.
Cast aluminum construction holds heat steady through a pound cake’s longer bake time, so the center finishes cooking before the exterior overbrowns. The 18-cup capacity handles a traditional pound cake recipe — a full pound of butter, flour, sugar, and eggs — without overflowing. Simpler profile than a full Bundt keeps the cake looking like a proper pound cake rather than a bundt.
Nordic Ware has been manufacturing bakeware in Minneapolis, Minnesota since 1946. The company invented the Bundt pan in 1950 and still casts, spins, and coats every piece in its Naturals, Bundt, and cast aluminum lines at that same Minnesota factory — one of the last family-owned American bakeware makers still building its core products at home.
